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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 11–19.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Sharika Thiranagama Sri Lanka is starving . Sri Lankans are starving. I cannot write this sentence without tears in my eyes. On Twitter, people debate: Is this the worst Sri Lanka has been through? Are these the longest protests? Surely, that honor is reserved for the hundreds and hundreds...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, contributing to the notion of Muslim histories as the super-spreaders of pandemic forms. While Sri Lanka repurposed the bellicose jingoism of a costly thirty-year Civil War to fuel a corrupt Sinhalese majoritarianism, recasting Tamils, Muslims, and Christians...
FIGURES
Journal Article
History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 84–112.
Published: 01 April 2019
... than these violent acts of war.69 Indeed, for these critical voices, France seemed to be announcing a new chapter in a longhistory of imperial exploitation, death, and destruction. As Sir Claude Corea of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) predicted, "What the people of Africa will remember is that a European power...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... be heard in song in devotional forums at home and in temples, performed in classical music concerts, popularized by Tamil popular cinema, declaimed in political oratory, and taught in schools. Anyone who has spent any significant time with Tamils (not only in Tamilnadu but also in Sri Lanka, Malaysia...
